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So, I'm just going to say this, even though probably everyone already knows it: there are way, way more people looking to make a living off of producing content
by rossdavidh 8y ago
So, I'm just going to say this, even though probably everyone already knows it: there are way, way more people looking to make a living off of producing content (Youtube, Twitch, etc.) for the internet, than there are people thinking, "If only there were more content on the Internet, I would pay some money or put up with some ads for that." There's nothing wrong with putting it out there if you want to, but expecting any kind of financial reward or other validation from the size of your audience seems like injecting yourself into a pretty vicious zero-sum game.
- Retric 8y agoI suspect their are far more viewers than people making content. The issue is 1 or even 10 viewers is no where near enough to support a content creator.
- rubicon33 8y agoI find it fascinating that the distribution of resources is almost always NON-LINEAR. Take capital wealth. Money. That is a heavily non-linear distribution. Twitch is no different. If you use viewers as a proxy for wealth, it's fascinating that even that proxy behaves in a non-linear way. I happen to have heard some interesting behavioral theories about why resources distribute in that manner. I'm always curious about what other people think.
- rossdavidh 8y agoI agree that the "natural" result will always be something along the lines of a Pareto distribution. That's bad news for my libertarian instincts, because I think it means that, in the absence of any mechanism to (partially) flatten this distribution back out, we inevitably see power accumulate more and more in the hands of fewer and fewer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution